Release build crash: PushNotificationIOS re-export from react-native core

[antonijap]

Reproduction: https://github.com/antonijap/uniwind-pushnotification-repro

Clone, install, run a release build on iOS:

git clone https://github.com/antonijap/uniwind-pushnotification-repro
cd uniwind-pushnotification-repro
npm install
npx expo run:ios --configuration Release

App crashes on launch. Works fine in dev mode.

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src/components/index.ts line ~199 re-exports PushNotificationIOS from react-native:

get PushNotificationIOS() {
    return require('react-native').PushNotificationIOS
},

RN removed this from core (deprecated since 0.60). Dev mode does not crash because Metro lazy-evaluates the getter. Release builds evaluate all getters eagerly, which triggers:

uniwind/src/components/index.ts:200
-> react-native/Libraries/PushNotificationIOS/PushNotificationIOS.js:67
-> new NativeEventEmitter() with null argument -> crash

Errors:

ERROR [Invariant Violation: new NativeEventEmitter() requires a non-null argument.]
ERROR [TypeError: Cannot read property 'default' of undefined]

We are patching via postinstall (return null instead of the require). Clipboard in the same file is also deprecated and could hit the same thing.

• uniwind 1.6.3
• react-native 0.83.6
• Expo SDK 55
• iOS release build